#100hardtruths

Some #100hardtruths on Digital Media Literacy

A path through the primer focusing on hardtruths about reading, writing, participating and understanding Digital Media Literacy.

“The path forward is hazy. We need to enable people to hear different perspectives and make sense of a very complicated  —  and in many ways, overwhelming  —  information landscape. We cannot fall back on standard educational approaches because the societal context has shifted. We also cannot simply assume that information intermediaries can fix the problem for us, whether they be traditional news media or social media. We need to get creative and build the social infrastructure necessary for people to meaningfully and substantively engage across existing structural lines” (dana boyd in #100hardtruths #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information required)
 

Contents of this path:

  1. #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information required
  2. #7: skeptical interaction with the digital is critical for democracy
  3. #12: we need things to help us get closer to the truth
  4. #14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality
  5. #21: focus on trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience
  6. #26: algorithmic literacy, transparency and oversight needed
  7. #30, every single tweak in an algorithm can make a change
  8. #41, visualize hoaxes
  9. #51, arming youth with digital skills needed for a more sustainable, safe and equitable world
  10. #53, tame and disarm dangerous algorithms
  11. #54, #100questions to resist against future Presidents, even if we like them
  12. #60, spot a #fakenews site in 10 steps
  13. #66, make sure to fact-check the trump archive
  14. #68, digital self-defense in the time of trump needed
  15. #72, learn how to see Palestine
  16. #76, learn what happens when you type a letter on your keyboard
  17. #79, attend to the structural problems inherent in the platform ecosystem
  18. #84, stage #fakenews events
  19. #88, solutionism doesn’t identify core problems